Book of Common Prayer, 1928

The Psalter Psalm 49 The Psalter Day 9
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12 Mark well her bulwarks, consider her palaces, • that
ye may tell them that come after.
herd; and the righteous shall have dominion over them
in the morning: • their beaury shall consume in the sepulchre,
and have no abiding.
13 For this God is our God for ever and ever: • he shall
be our guide unto death.
15 But God hath delivered my soul from the power of
Psalm 49. Audite ha:c, o1llnes.
the grave; • for he shall receive me. . • .
16 Be not thou afraid, though one be made nch, or if
HEAR ye this, all ye people; • ponder it with your
the glory of his house be increased;
O ears, all ye that dwell in the world;
17 For he shall carry nothing away with him when he
2 High and low, rich and poor, • one with another.
dieth, • neither shall his pomp follow him.
3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom, • and my heart shall
18 For while he lived, he counted himself an happy
muse of understanding.
man; • and so long as thou doest well unto thyself, men
4 I will incline mine ear to the parable, • and show my
will speak good of thee.
dark speech upon the harp.
19 He shall follow the generation of his fathers, • and
5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, • when
shall never see light.
wickedness at my heels compasseth me round about?
20 Man that is in honour but hath no understanding'
6 There be some that put their trust in their goods, •
is compared unto the beasts that perish.
and boast themsel ves in the multitude of their riches.
7 But no man may deliver his brother, • nor give a ransom
unto God for him,
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8 (For it cost more to redeem their souls, • so that he
Morning Prayer.
must let that alone for ever;)
9 That he shall live alway, • and not see the grave.
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10 For he seeth that wise men also die and perish together,
• as well as the ignorant and foolish, and leave
and called the world, from the rising up of the sun
I -IE LORD, even the Most Mighty God, hath spoken, •
their riches for other.
II And yet they think that their houses shall continue
for ever, and that their dwelling-places shall endure from
one generation to another; • and call the lands after their
unto the going down thereof.
2 Out of Sion hath God appeared ' in perfect beaury.
3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence; '
there shall go before him a consuming fire, and a mighry
own names.
tempest shall be stirred up round about him.
12 Nevertheless, man being in honour abideth not, '
4 He shall call the heaven from above, • and the earth,
seeing he may be compared unto the beasts that perish;
that he may judge his people.
13 Tllis their way is very foolishness; • yet their posterity
praise their saying.
made a covenant with me with sacrifice.
5 Gather my saints together unto me; • those that have
14 They lie in the grave like sheep; death is their shep-